Looking For Alaska

Looking For Alaska by John Green was a book that intrigued me. I became aware of it's exsistance because of YouTube. John Green and his brother run a very popular channel on YouTube (Vlogbrothers). I loved the creativity in their videos so I decided to check out the book John was always mentioning.

Looking For Alaska blew me away it was beautiful, funny, sad, thoughtful...it was everything. I would suggest this book for anyone, boys or girls. The book does deal with some adult situations suchs as smoking and engaging in sexual themes but they are not the main focus of the book and take up very few pages.

I found myself completely in love with all the characters and yearned for their happy ending. And yes I cried my eyes out reading this book while sitting in the my malls food court!

John Green won a Printz Prize for this amazing book in 2006.

From Barnes and Noble

Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words — and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet Francois Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps." Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young. Clever, funny, screwed-up, and dead sexy, Alaska will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps.

Looking for Alaska brilliantly chronicles the indelible impact one life can have on another. A stunning debut, it marks John Green's arrival as an important new voice in contemporary fiction.